Heft 2, Jahrgang 141 - Canisianum
Heft 2, Jahrgang 141 - Canisianum
Heft 2, Jahrgang 141 - Canisianum
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BRIEFE UND GRÜSSE AUS ALLER WELT<br />
Christmas vacation. We could not leave for<br />
vacation until after Christmas Day unless you<br />
were invited to stay with a German or Swiss<br />
family. The Europeans rightfully left before<br />
Christmas to be home with their families. After<br />
Mass on Christmas Day, a small group of<br />
mainly first-year American students gathered<br />
in the faculty dining room. Father Jungmann<br />
and Father Hugo Rahner donned white<br />
aprons and waited on us. Heimweh was<br />
strong at this point —- it was Christmas. Our<br />
dinner was meager but the example of scholarly<br />
men of international fame waiting on<br />
tables to care for young Americans taught me<br />
the meaning of meek and humble of heart.<br />
You too have your stories and remembrances.<br />
We all know firsthand the meekness and<br />
humility of Father Dander and Father<br />
Schasching and Father Santeler. They lived<br />
the puncta they gave us. They modeled the<br />
priority of Jesus in their lives. The Jesuit<br />
scholars who taught us —- the Rahners,<br />
Jungmann, and Meyer, Gaechtner and Sint —<br />
- could have taught at Harvard or Yale or<br />
Cambridge. They could have had enormous<br />
salaries and secretaries and research assistants<br />
and big offices, but they stayed in<br />
Innsbruck to give us a first-class theological<br />
education. They were meek and humble of<br />
heart.<br />
To have prepared for the call to priesthood in<br />
Innsbruck was a great grace of God. That is<br />
what we celebrate in this Klein Konveniat.<br />
Innsbruck challenged us to reach beyond<br />
boundaries: beyond personal boundaries,<br />
beyond intellectual boundaries, beyond cultural<br />
boundaries. The <strong>Canisianum</strong> exposed us to<br />
an international Gemeinschaft and gave us<br />
insights into the Church universal. Pater<br />
Regens, our spiritual directors, the Geist und<br />
Statuten of the <strong>Canisianum</strong> taught us the<br />
meaning of personal responsibility and discipleship.<br />
To be an Innsbrucker means to have experienced<br />
the broad dimensions of Church life<br />
and Church thought. To have studied in<br />
Innsbruck means to have reached beyond<br />
boundaries. One boundary remains: the life<br />
long challenge to go beyond our hardness of<br />
heart and fulfill Jesusʼ words: “Learn from me,<br />
for I am meek and humble of heart.” And so<br />
we strive together in corde uno and anima<br />
una. Amen<br />
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